ARLINGTON Texas — The Texas RangersAfter spending the past 4 seasons in the same position, Tim Hyers was named their hitting coach Wednesday. Boston Red Sox.
Chris Woodward, Hyers and Rangers supervisor, worked together as assistants to Dave Roberts’ workers with Rangers. Los Angeles DodgersIn 2016 and 2017.
The Dodgers were Nationwide League champions in 2017 and again in 2018, when Hyers was in the Crimson Sox’s first season after they beat Los Angeles for their World Collection title.
Rangers have just lost 102 games and rank twenty-ninth within the majors, with a.232 batting population. They finished last with a.670 OPS, scoring an AL-low 625 runs.
Hyers spent 4 seasons with Crimson Sox and led the majors’ in run scored (2.898), whole bases (8.632), extra base hits (1.989), batting average (.266) as well as slugging share (0.455), OPS (.790) and slugging percentage (.455).
Donnie Ecker, Texas’ bench coach and offensive coordinator was appointed on November 1. He will oversee Texas’s entire hitting program at all levels of the minor and key leagues. Ecker spent the two previous seasons as a hitting instructor for the Texas Rangers. San Francisco Giants.
Ecker replaced Don Wakamatsu as bench coach, but he was fired after the season. Also, the Rangers failed to deliver on their promise of hitting instructors Luis Ortiz or Callix Crabbe.